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The novel Frankenstein was written for a contest.<\/p>\n

\"frankenstein\"<\/a>According to Listverse.com, in the summer of 1816, Mary Godwin, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont (Mary\u2019s step-sister) visited Lord Byron in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The idea was to relax and enjoy the mild Swiss summer, but that summer was especially dreary.<\/p>\n

Unable to enjoy the outdoors, the group mostly read German ghost stories to entertain themselves. It was that reading that inspired Byron to propose that the group write their own supernatural stories and see who could come up with the best one, \u00a0according to List Verse.<\/p>\n

Byron wrote only fragments. Polidori really didn\u2019t come up with anything, but came up with something later based on Byron\u2019s ideas.<\/p>\n

Mary retired for the evening and had a dream of a corpse that came back to life. Based on that dream she wrote Frankenstein. Percy concentrated on facilitating his soon-to-be-wife\u2019s story. She imagined it as a short story, and wrote the first few chapters in a relatively short time, \u00a0List Verse stated.<\/p>\n

With Percy\u2019s encouragement and editing, she fleshed out the story over the next year or so and turned it into a full-fledged novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankenstein\u201d isn\u2019t a random name either, and in the book, Frankenstein talks. Read more: ListVerse.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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